with Turks and infidels, And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars Shall kin with kin and kind with kind
confound; Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd The field of Golgotha
and dead men's skulls. O, if you raise this house against this house, It will the woefullest division prove That
ever fell upon this cursed earth. Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child's children, cry against
you woe! NORTHUMBERLAND
Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains, Of capital treason we arrest you here. My Lord of Westminster,
be it your charge To keep him safely till his day of trial. May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit. HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Fetch hither Richard, that in common view He may surrender; so we shall proceed Without suspicion. DUKE OF YORK
I will be his conduct.
Exit HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Lords, you that here are under our arrest, Procure your sureties for your days of answer. Little are we
beholding to your love, And little look'd for at your helping hands.
Re-enter DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD II, and Officers bearing the regalia KING RICHARD II
Alack, why am I sent for to a king, Before I have shook off the regal thoughts Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly
yet have learn'd To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs: Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me To this
submission. Yet I well remember The favours of these men: were they not mine? Did they not sometime
cry, 'all hail!' to me? So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand,
none. God save the king! Will no man say amen? Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen. God save
the king! although I be not he; And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me. To do what service am I sent
for hither? DUKE OF YORK
To do that office of thine own good will Which tired majesty did make thee offer, The resignation of thy
state and crown To Henry Bolingbroke. KING RICHARD II
Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown; Here cousin: On this side my hand, and on that side
yours. Now is this golden crown like a deep well That owes two buckets, filling one another, The emptier
ever dancing in the air, The other down, unseen and full of water: That bucket down and full of tears am
I, Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high. HENRY BOLINGBROKE
I thought you had been willing to resign.
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